What is wrong with Reddit?

After the recent controversy over the shooting in New Zealand, Zag Forums has come up quite a bit which has prompted me to investigate what this place is all about.

In my browsing of the various sub-chans on this site, I've noticed the recurring meme of "go back to Reddit". Further readings reveal a distinct abhorrence for Reddit and its users, but I cannot figure out why.

Reddit is a great place for discourse and there are many active subreddits where field professionals regularly answer questions on issues of health, science, engineering, etc. On Zag Forums, however, it's mostly trolls saying "f*gg*t", "n*gg*r", and "k*ke" nearly every other word. Not only do I not see this this as constructive, but don't see how anyone here could find it preferable to Reddit.

Someone please enlighten me as to why everyone here despises Reddit so much. Also, can we get some text editor controls like a button that does bold and italics?

The first 3 lines were 15% bait power, but then it fell to mere 5% and the last lines are literally 0%, try again in a few days.

5 days ago

Isaiah Russell

Reddit is a great place for discourse and there are many active subreddits where field professionals regularly answer questions on issues of health, science, engineering, etcYeah, as far as content goes, Reddit kicks Zag Forums's ass. They have some great boards for serious academic discussion.

As far as why anons are so hostile towards anything that even hints at reddit, I think it might have something to do with self-esteem issues. Many of them have been booted out of various online communities because of their autism and various forms of faggotry, and they became bitter as a result.

In all fairness, the point system is a double-edged sword and the non-academic stuff on reddit tends to suck ass.

5 days ago

Nicholas Richardson

Reddit is a censorship hellhole. Any right-wing opinion is downvoted or just outright banned. One example would be Covington boys post where the boys were doxed by reddit members and people cheered. When someone posted full 2 hour video of it, the comment was either downvoted to oblivion or banned. Mods in reddit can just shadowban people just because they can.

5 days ago

Brandon Phillips

Ur mom lol gay xd

5 days ago

Nolan Gonzalez

I hate reddit and its users , if you dont go with the flow your comments get downvoted and if you say anything bad you get banned .fuck reddit

Reddit admins can just ban entire subreddits if advertisers dont like it. They just banned all gore subreddits after Christchurch mosque shooting because of media attention.

5 days ago

Christian Murphy

reddit is just a popularity contest. truth doesn't matter, facts don't matter, logic doesn't matter. the only thing that matters is appealing to the majority for precious upvotes.

5 days ago

Oliver Sullivan

Don't get carried away with pretending to be retarded, one day you'll find out that that's all you can do.

5 days ago

Hunter Thompson

ECHOOoooo…

CHAAMBEEERRRrrrr….

5 days ago

Ryan Green

very serious question:why are upvotes precious

5 days ago

Mason Harris

Guess the same reason (You)'s are

5 days ago

Bentley Garcia

that speech about /pol/Lol yeah, they really hit it out of the park with pizzagate. Oh, remember muh shmita? Yeah that was crazy. The economy still hasn't recovered. And let's not forget about q-user; he's totally 100% legit and not a troll at all. A sophisticated /pol/ user would never take a .jpg of a document that could have been made by literally anybody at face value.

Oh… and Jews. Yeah, they're basically to blame for pretty much everything. And if someone disagrees, welp… just call em a Kike Shill (or just "Kike" if you wanna shorten it).

We hate Reddit because the userbase are either white knights, easilly offended pussies, and they always fill the comments with dad jokes or some 80's TV show reference, they also don't allow opinion diversity otherwise you'd get downvoted for anything that says against their safe zone, so don't even bother risking trying to change another users opinion. Let's look at it this wayTalk about loli in a thread or post a loli picSome anons love it and some hate itTalk about how much you love loli on Reddit or post a image100 downvotes and everyone acting offended and calling you disgustingNo opinion diversity

Shadowbans, pockets as hot as the core of the sun, censored gaymurrgape and TPP discussions, deleted spacedicks, top upboated comments are always mangled, defanged may-mays; users pretend they're a community when in reality they're a collection of surveiled idiots posting free content that a censor then decides whether or not to allow others to see.

SpaceDicks is still there, just quarantined and inactive, which is actually kinda shocking since r/Nomorals and r/EnoughInternet were banned, and recently r/WatchPeopleDie. Reddit has took the advertiser friendly route like Tumblr and YouTube, and only a couple months ago the site changed rules and doesn't allow gore, extreme post, racism (r/Coonsville got banned), subreddits in a offensive nature (r/BeatingRetards, r/PicsOfDeadWomen) and banned loli.

They even banned a hentai subreddit just because it contained drawings of anime girls being fucked rough, not even rape, just fucked a bit violently, it wasn't even something from Emergence

4 days ago

Matthew Parker

I don't know what words mean and I must post

4 days ago

Jayden Diaz

this

4 days ago

Parker Diaz

what are you talking about nigger

do you think OP is an actual redditor? retard

4 days ago

Christian Ramirez

I mean that you demonstrated how you don't know what larp means with your earlier post, fucktard.

4 days ago

Aiden Bailey

i have an account that i use to post my art and but i need to act really fake for the upvotes and i hate the people who talk to me and how everyone tries really hard to seem intelligent its so pointless like i know you're dumb and trying to be otherwise like omg just stop talking to me and let me free please

First post was made in April 2015Only if we knew how bad things really would've gotten…

4 days ago

Jack Gray

we don't have downvotes to silence you.

4 days ago

Luke Fisher

On Zag Forums, however, it's mostly trolls saying "f*gg*t", "n*gg*r", and "k*ke" nearly every other word. Good sir, do not accuse us of base trollery! We say "fuggit" because we sometimes experience frustration, but don't want to use a similar badswear derived from the "'F" word! We do sometimes call people "nagger" because, well, some people like to nag. Like our girlfriends, right!? And, finally, "kuke" is just a nickname for a cucumber. As health-conscious fellow netizens, I'm sure our gentlemen counterparts of Reddit can appreciate our discussion of vegetables. I hope this explanation helps, and with that, good sir, I tip my hat to you.

4 days ago

Luke Wilson

H-hey um user, can I ask you for a favour? C-come join this /pol/ Discord server please, it's a really good server I promise! We can maybe even laugh at the Christchurch shooting livestream together if you did… so join using this link right now:discord.gg/ymxFyhu

The biggest problem with reddit is the userbase. As someone who's been around reddit users in the past, they have to be some of the most irritating, smug and obnoxious people I've ever met.

4 days ago

Parker Martin

One one hand, Reddit is such a left-wing shithole that if you mention jews, niggers, etc doing wrong shit, you get banned. On the other hand, the few right-wing havens like r/cringeanarchy are surprisingly intelligent, funny, and because of the jewish bullshit i mentioned before, they have to be creative, such as posting NIGGER in separate letters. They are also more motivated. Maybe the faggots on thw chans are just too fucking lazy to do anything.

The problems go deeper than just censorship. You get that here too. (Mark, Kikey)

Reddit is by and large a community of averages. Average intelligence, average taste, average political stance. That makes everything that goes on there extremely boring and predictable. Every opinion is designed to appeal to the most people because if it doesn't it'll just drown in all the other white noise or worse get voted into invisibility. This leads to an environment where disagreeing with someone becomes impossible, regardless of how well reasoned your post is. Reddit is the death of discourse.

4 days ago

Xavier Stewart

stfu faggot. Zag Forums is literally same as reddit but opposite. Toxicity is popular here. Goto /pol/ literally everyone hates muslim because they are muslim. I havent seen anyone with an IQ of above 15 in Zag Forums. Dumb fuckin faggot.

Sandniggers, niggers, spics, chinks, and kikes all deserve to be hated, though. Only retards would choose to delude themselves into thinking they're equal.

4 days ago

Lucas Sanders

H-hey um user, can I ask you for a favor? Come join this Discord server please, it's a really good server I promise! It would really make my day if you did… so join using this link right now:discord.gg/Q8WFGUh

In a nutshell, it all comes down to the karma system and it not being anonymous.The karma system effectively prevents any real dissent on the communities, because instead of giving a good argument as to why what you state is wrong, they will simply downvote you en masse, so every community is just a collective of feedback loop of conformity and a forced pseudo-intellectual facade. In order to get upvotes you will have to appeal to the lowest common denominator, and that's how every democratic mechanism works in the long run.Pseudo-anonymity allows mods and admins as well as average users to target those whose opinion they tend to disagree with either by downvoting all of their posts/responses, shadowbanning or downright banning for no apparent reason.There is another negative aspect of the karma system, and it's its addictiveness, getting upvotes will grant you that sweet dose of dopamine (as pointed by ), just as the likes on every other social network, be it Instagram, Twitter, youn name it, and as people realize that in order to do that they will have to appeal to the lowest common denominator rather than make any reasonable and well-grounded opinion, those with low self-esteem are going to start to desperately karma-whore so as to feed their empty sense of self-worth.

It's mechanisms can be so easily corrupted to create a community of echo-chambers that it eventually turns into what it was unintentionally conceived to become: Echo-chamber, the social network.

Reddit's only worthy feature is the ability for users to create their own subreddits, which was cleverly adopted by Hot Wheels to create InfinityChan, that makes the site more decentralized which allows for better "competition" between boards so to speak and that leads to better moderation and more freedom to choose. A much needed improvement over the concept of anonymous imageboards.

3 days ago

Christian Hall

I go on reddit all the time for my niche hobbies and to get my news. 4chan and Zag Forums are fun and all but you're just not able to get the quality level of posting and information that you can on reddit. OP is right and everyone knows it

Nowadays? It might as well be.Originally, it was because reddit would steal content from 4chan users for upvotes. Later on, it was also their behavior that made us hate them, though those complaining about them were pretty fucking obnoxious as well, even if they had a point. Since imageboards are utterly stagnate now, reddit is cancer solely because of how they behave, think and write.There's just one problem—imageboards are not only stagnate, but they're populated with foreigners now, who think they know, who pretend to know, but do not actually know. As if that wasn't bad enough, now you also have underagefags and post-underagefags (i.e. legal age adults who might as well be underage) shitting up the entire fucking site with zog-nazi-tier cancer and "WTF?????!!!!!!!! lmao kys", with others believing it's okay to do it "ironically", because redditfags and ex-redditfags think imageboards are just Zag Forums everywhere, and what they know from Zag Forums relates to all kinds of le ebin greentext stories. They retarded normalfags and cyborgs who wreck everything they touch. So I think their mascot is pretty fucking fitting, a smiling fucking monkey that seems to be asking "lol I burned your house down and raped your dog, what are you going to do about it? you won't do anything because mommy will protect my little spoiled ass" (those of us who would do something can't because there's no filter to anonymity).There are other candidates for hatred, and quite frankly, I have no fucking clue as to where they came from (the aforementioned underagefags seemed to have come straight from social medias after seeing /pol/ maymays during the last presidential election campaign, while others may have come from places like 4chon).I just want my pre-2014 4chan back (not all boards were shit by then, though afterwards I don't think you can find a single board that isn't shit, much like Zag Forums now, where even the unknown slow comfy boards get dragged into the fucking spotlight to be massacred for the Plebs amusement in that stupid fucking attention-hungry cancer). It's all so frustrating and I'm just so tired of it all.

too many betas. don't take reddit serious. too many whiteknights ,moralfags, ect. Desperate for up-votes to get attention.

2 days ago

Sebastian Turner

Reddit doesn't work like you think it does. Karma is a red herring and up/down votes irrelevantalso, it's hypocrisy to lambast the groupthink/echochamber aspect of reddit in a post on 8chfinally, you sound like exactly the sort of toxic bigot reddit tries so hard to exclude

2 days ago

Sebastian Gomez

being this far off the markThe reason 8ch tends to try to isolate itself is because it's filled with the rejects of society - racists, pedophiles, conspiracy theorists, gore enthusiasts etc. We have been aggressively rejected by polite society, and as such, we do the same to any "normalfags" who poke their heads out. We also have the added bonus that much of what we think, say or find erotic is abhorrent to those we seek to escape.

This is why it's common to see someone denigrated for moralfagging. We are all immoral in some way, so whoever is moralfagging either has no business doing so, or they're a normalfag and they need to gtfo.

The fact that you censored these just shows how much of a pussy ass bitch you are.

2 days ago

Josiah Jones

What is wrong with Reddit?read long ass post - tldr on the bottom

2 days ago

Gavin Richardson

third gifIs there another with Kuro?

2 days ago

Gabriel Watson

Argue why muslims don't deserve hate for being muslims. It's even worse than being a nigger, because niggers can't help being born as niggers. I admit though that the death penalty for leaving islam is a rather high hurdle to cross.

2 days ago

Jackson Ramirez

I can't leave islam or else I'll be killedI'd better stay with this religion and help kill the apostatesYou're not really making a case for them.

2 days ago

Brayden Perez

right, because kill or be killed is so hard to understand

2 days ago

Justin Edwards

Perhaps creatures who have been indoctrinated for centuries leaving only the most cowardly and stupid to spread their genes is too hard for you to understand?

2 days ago

Samuel Hernandez

Leddit go home

2 days ago

Jason Green

Huh? Reading comprehension. I'm making the case against them, not for.

Because they have a upvote system, which basically means that only posts that everyone already likes will be discussed.It becomes a circlejerk

2 days ago

Carson Watson

Nigger plz, your bait sucks and only faggots and kikes would fall for it.

2 days ago

Dominic Wood

academicsblack science guySigh.

2 days ago

Luis Collins

Reddit sucks because if you tell the truth about something or blow the fuck out of the shills you get downvoted to oblivion. Even if you have mathematical proof that something is bullshit you get downvoted. It's a place for monkies and morons that would rather say the sun is green than admit they were wrong about some petty thing.

2 days ago

James Evans

Reddit by the way its model works restricts free speech and ends up with a mob group consensus on what the best comments are.

People who come here from reddit have had their actual thoughts and feelings on issues destroyed before they even got here because the crowd liked or disliked what they said and tailored what they are typing. You are not a free thinker on leddit just another person with a repressed voice that works to societies expectations of what you should say and put down, thats why we hate reddit.

Now having field professionals does redeem it a little as long as those professionals have their credentials in experience and or a degree, not group consensus and upvotes

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